Professor Patsy Healey
Honorary fellowship
Year conferred: 1995
During the 1970s and early 1980s Patsy Healey was Head, and subsequently Dean, of the Planning Department at the former Oxford Polytechnic. Then Director of the Institute of Urban and Rural Research and, in 1994, President of the Association of European Schools of Planning. She went on to become Head of the Department of Town and Country Planning at Newcastle University, and then Director of the Centre for Research in European Urban Environments in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. She is now Professor Emeritus at Newcastle University Patsy is a founding academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.
She was awarded an OBE in 1999 for services to planning, and was recognised as an Honorary Member, by the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) in 2004, only the second such honour to be awarded. She was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 2007'.
